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AK AtrSTRALJAN BIRD BOOK. 



ORDER VIII.-— PROCELLARIIFORMES, TUBINARES, 

 TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS. 



F. 27. PROCELLARIIDAE (5), STORM - PETRELS, 



MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS, 25 sp.— 10(3)A., 

 2(0)0., 10(0)P., 7(0)E., 18(4)Nc., 13(3)N1. 



2 35 Wilson Storm-Petrel (Yellow - webbed, Flat- clawed), 



3 Oceanites oceanica, S. Polar regions N. to British Is. 

 (ace), Labrador (ace), India, A., N.Z. c. ocean 



Blackish; base tail above below white; legs black; webs 

 yellow; f., sim. Shellfish, small fish, greasy. 



During the interest aroused by Peary's expedition to the North 

 Pole, an illustrated weekly paper published a cartoon, which 

 showed the American Eagle sitting on the North Pole and 

 reading a proclamation to an audience of Penguins. One thing 

 is unfortunate about this — Penguins are unknown in the Northern 

 Hemisphere. Indeed, they support the geographer in his con- 

 tention that, while the Pacific Ocean is very ancient, the Atlantic 

 Ocean has been formed much more recently, for Penguins are 

 found up the Pacific even to the Galapagos Is. on the Equator, 

 but have not spread into the Atlantic Ocean beyond Tristan da 

 Cunha, at the extreme South. 



Order VIII. includes the true ocean birds — those wanderers seen 

 far from any land by ocean travellers. Indeed, many of them 

 do not go near land except to breed. Then they usually repair 

 to small lonely islands often with bold precipitous shores. 



